I have central vac in my house, so no static charge. Works quite well on computers and other equipment and sucks harder then all the uprights I have had in my life.
But if Han is a Storm Trooper, does this mean Han is a clone of Jingo Fet and that makes him the father of Boba. SW can make for a messed up episode of Springer.
I found it to be nothing more then Hellraiser in space. I think Even one of the Hellraiser movies did a sci-fi take that toppped it (it's been a while since seeing any heckrazor so I could be mixing up something else.) I think the best Sci-Fi Horror was the critters series of films. Some were better/worse then others, but for 80's camp sci-fi horror it did well.
But do avoid the english dub. It pays to listen to the great performance of the actors in German and put up with some subtitles (if you cant understand German).
Dear Spammer, By now, with all the media coverage, you may have realized that many people are irritated by your activities. But if you thought it ended at mere irritation, you haven't thought it through.
Irritation is a form of stress, and as has been medically proven, stress kills. Ahah, you say, but your unsolicited commercial e-mail hasn't killed anyone yet. Perhaps it has...
Through an interesting legal doctrine, the spam itself doesn't have to kill, it just has to begin a chain of events that result in death. Say you were driving drunk and hit another car. The driver of that car is put in an ambulance and rushed to the hospital, but on the way to the hospital the ambulance is struck by lightning and explodes, killing the passenger. You could still be convicted of his death. Why? But for your illegal act of driving while intoxicated, that person would have most likely made it home safe. Your reckless and selfish actions resulted in that person having to be in that ambulance and thus you are responsible for their death.
Now let's look at your spam... it aggravates a man who then snaps at his wife over an insignificant thing. They get in a fight. He leaves the house, goes to a bar, has a few drinks... On his way home he gets into an accident, killing himself and the driver of the other car. But for your spam, he might have been in a better mood and wouldn't have fought with his wife, but no... your reckless and selfish actions resulted in the death of TWO people. You sick, shameless bastard!
Thus when you -- with full premeditation and knowledge of the potential consequences -- send out a bulk unsolicited commercial e-mailing to millions of people, you are in effect committing attempted murder by a single individual on a mass scale heretofore unknown in the history of the world.
Another interesting legal doctrine is that you may use as much force in the defense of the life of another from an attacker as you would to defend your own. That means that not just everyone with an e-mail address may kill you in self defense, but everyone in the world may kill you to defend the rest of us before your spamming has the chance to take another life.
Please, save your own life as well as the lives of countless others.
So it's Netflixes fault you live/work with crappy humans? If your neighbors are stealing your mail, it's a federal offense and the postal cops will be more then happy to lock em up. Same goes for your mailroom workers.
"As I state in anoter reply below, I was reacting mostly to the idea you seemed to espouse that it is okay to allow kidpr0n. I think it is not because destigmatizing these fantasies is an enabler to the behaviour. Current methods of dealing with the problem might probably be reformed, but I can't see kidpr0n as harmless because of the nature of its use and the set of ideas to which the idea of its being harmless leads."
The above seems quite close to arguing that video games make people killers. Try replaceing Kidpr0n with Violence (or more specifically killing) and see how the argument stands.
Not that I think that Virtual Kidpr0n is a good thing, but we must be careful how we deal with the complex issues, otherwise they can have unintended consiquences.
Those are not action figures. They are dolls. If it is a miniture representation of the human form it's a doll. On the same note, thats not battle gear, it's accessories.;-)
Not to humor impared, please go play You Dont Know Jack.
On the bright side, now when you reccomend it, it does have specific coverage. As you have been sending people to it, they clearly have gotten what was needed out of it before 3rd edition, yes?
I found your suggestion I had clearly not read the book an insult, as I had just spent a tough week using it as a referance on some issues for my work. Not a detail I would expect you would know. But it got under my skin.
Michael Swanwick Authorised Page here has some good stuff, from dark fantasy to post apocalyptic eastern US, space beaurocrats to asteroid mining colonies.
I also like his short stories.
However I am biased as I have known him since I was a little kid hiding under my partents tables at various sci-fi con dealer rooms.
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I have central vac in my house, so no static charge. Works quite well on computers and other equipment and sucks harder then all the uprights I have had in my life.
Most BBS door games that were popular seem to have survived and made the jump.
Maybe the submitter just never paid mutch attention to telnet BBSing.
AFAIK WWIV is still active.
But if Han is a Storm Trooper, does this mean Han is a clone of Jingo Fet and that makes him the father of Boba.
SW can make for a messed up episode of Springer.
I found it to be nothing more then Hellraiser in space.
I think Even one of the Hellraiser movies did a sci-fi take that toppped it (it's been a while since seeing any heckrazor so I could be mixing up something else.)
I think the best Sci-Fi Horror was the critters series of films. Some were better/worse then others, but for 80's camp sci-fi horror it did well.
I figured everyone watches it to see Chris Barrie.
Hi-res DVD coming soon.
So it will have the alternate endign to army of Darkness tacked on?
But do avoid the english dub. It pays to listen to the great performance of the actors in German and put up with some subtitles (if you cant understand German).
I think you need to see Bullet Proof Monk.
JFS on AIX predates JFS on OS/2(Ecomstation).
Shamelessly Stolen from usenet:
Dear Spammer,
By now, with all the media coverage, you may have realized that many people are irritated by your activities. But if you thought it ended at mere irritation, you haven't thought it through.
Irritation is a form of stress, and as has been medically proven, stress kills. Ahah, you say, but your unsolicited commercial e-mail hasn't killed anyone yet. Perhaps it has...
Through an interesting legal doctrine, the spam itself doesn't have to kill, it just has to begin a chain of events that result in death. Say you were driving drunk and hit another car. The driver of that car is put in an ambulance and rushed to the hospital, but on the way to the
hospital the ambulance is struck by lightning and explodes, killing the passenger. You could still be convicted of his death. Why? But for
your illegal act of driving while intoxicated, that person would have most likely made it home safe. Your reckless and selfish actions
resulted in that person having to be in that ambulance and thus you are responsible for their death.
Now let's look at your spam... it aggravates a man who then snaps at his wife over an insignificant thing. They get in a fight. He leaves the house, goes to a bar, has a few drinks... On his way
home he gets into an accident, killing himself and the driver of the other car. But for your spam, he might have been in a better mood and wouldn't
have fought with his wife, but no... your reckless and selfish actions resulted in the death of TWO people. You sick, shameless bastard!
Thus when you -- with full premeditation and knowledge of the potential consequences -- send out a bulk unsolicited commercial e-mailing to
millions of people, you are in effect committing attempted murder by a single individual on a mass scale heretofore unknown in the history of the world.
Another interesting legal doctrine is that you may use as much force in the defense of the life of another from an attacker as you would to defend your own. That means that not just everyone with an e-mail address may kill you in self defense, but everyone in the world may kill you to defend the rest of us before your spamming has the chance
to take another life.
Please, save your own life as well as the lives of
countless others.
Don't spam... or we'll kill you.
So it's Netflixes fault you live/work with crappy humans?
If your neighbors are stealing your mail, it's a federal offense and the postal cops will be more then happy to lock em up.
Same goes for your mailroom workers.
"RAWK" is the sound a Chocobo from the Final Fantasy game series makes.
Could also be a bent spelling of Rock.
"As I state in anoter reply below, I was reacting mostly to the idea you seemed to espouse that it is okay to allow kidpr0n. I think it is not because destigmatizing these fantasies is an enabler to the behaviour. Current methods of dealing with the problem might probably be reformed, but I can't see kidpr0n as harmless because of the nature of its use and the set of ideas to which the idea of its being harmless leads."
The above seems quite close to arguing that video games make people killers. Try replaceing Kidpr0n with Violence (or more specifically killing) and see how the argument stands.
Not that I think that Virtual Kidpr0n is a good thing, but we must be careful how we deal with the complex issues, otherwise they can have unintended consiquences.
Might want to take this subject up with Bob the Angry Flower.
Those are not action figures. They are dolls. ;-)
If it is a miniture representation of the human form it's a doll.
On the same note, thats not battle gear, it's accessories.
Not to humor impared, please go play You Dont Know Jack.
Dare to be Stupid is a perfect example.
Does he write anything that dosnt involve rape? Really turned me off in the first book of the first trilogy.
I'd like to see his Dilvish books as well.
The main Sci-Fi by Zelazny that leaps to my mind would be "Doorways in the Sand".
Simply dont show the "footage" just show the characters reaction to it. Old trick. Then the viewer is left to imagine what the awesome sight must be.
On the bright side, now when you reccomend it, it does have specific coverage. As you have been sending people to it, they clearly have gotten what was needed out of it before 3rd edition, yes?
I found your suggestion I had clearly not read the book an insult, as I had just spent a tough week using it as a referance on some issues for my work. Not a detail I would expect you would know. But it got under my skin.
Even in Japan you cant find a comic called Rape Man.
From all I have read about it. After it's release it was not re-published due to complaints.
You left out Harrison's "Bill the Galactic Hero" stuff that is a great parody of so much.
Then again no one has mentioned Kilgore Trout in any of all this name dropping.
Michael Swanwick Authorised Page here has some good stuff, from dark fantasy to post apocalyptic eastern US, space beaurocrats to asteroid mining colonies.
I also like his short stories.
However I am biased as I have known him since I was a little kid hiding under my partents tables at various sci-fi con dealer rooms.